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| BECE CANDIDATES |
28-09-2011
Public schools in all the nine districts of the Upper East Region that took part in the 2011 Basic Education Certificate Exams failed to attain a 50 percent mark with 10 schools scoring zero percent. Affected districts include Builsa, Talensi-Nabdam, Kassena-Nankana West, Bolgatanga municipal, Bawku Municipal, and the Garu–Tempane district recording the least percentage of 16.1 score. The Bongo District came close by scoring up to 49.6 percent as compared to the 52 percent score attained by the Kassena-Nankana West in last year’s BECE exams. At a press briefing held in Bolgatanga, the Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Mrs Lucy Awuni said the growing abysmal series of student’s performance in the region could be only described as poor and shameful pointing to the fact that the trend has become so disturbing that there could be no better time than now to begin passionately question and effectively investigate the reasons behind the declining standards of education in the region. To her, the media as well as stakeholders in the educational sector of the region, needs to redouble their effort in helping to address the problem before it gets out of hand. She said the media need to devote more time, energy and attention to helping the region to unravel the elements that are responsible for the deplorable performance students in both internal and external examination. This, she explained could help in effecting a positive change in addressing the challenge. She said whilst the media takes step in dealing with the situation, stakeholders are required to play their monitoring and supervisory role in addressing the issue of perpetual lateness, habitual absenteeism ,irresponsible use of instructional hours and other forms of indiscipline on the part of teachers in the region, which according to her occur unnoticed in some schools. Mrs Awuni also blamed the incessant appalling student’s performance to lack of thorough monitoring and supervision, stressing that poor student performance would have been impossible if the supervisory authorities that are assigned to the systems had mapped out measures for effective monitoring and supervision. As a form of measure, Mrs Awuni announced that she would be embarking on surprise visits to school in the region with the company of the media to discourage the perceived misconduct and reported habits that are responsible for the dying basic educational system in the region. She also tasked the Municipal and District Chief Executives, to organize a basic-level education forum in each district in collaboration with parents to chart the way forward to achieving better education in the region. The Regional Director of Education, Mr. Paul Apanga, for his part, attributed the poor performance of students to lack of discipline and commitment on the part of teachers. He said teachers ought to sacrifice enough in the work and also assist in shaping the knowledge base of their students. Mr. Apanga also called on teachers to as a matter of concern adapt to more practical methodology of teaching. He also asked parents to play their role in ensuring that their wards are provided with the needed educational materials to augment government’s practical commitment to quality basic education.
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